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In the News - BBC News - Brady
Drugs in dirt: Scientists appeal for help "Dr. [Sean] Brady, head of the Laboratory of Genetically Encoded Small Molecules, said: 'We hope that efforts to map nature's microbial and chemical diversity will result in the discovery of both completely new medicines and better versions of existing me...
Cancer biologist and physician Sohail Tavazoie is promoted to associate professor
Sohail Tavazoie, head of the Elizabeth and Vincent Meyer Laboratory of Systems Cancer Biology, has been promoted to associate professor, effective January 1. Tavazoie, who joined Rockefeller in 2009, works to understand how cancer cells become able to escape a tumor and invade other organs, a pro...
Long-acting drug effectively prevents HIV-like infection in monkeys
A regime of anti-HIV drugs — components of regimens to treat established HIV infection — has the potential to protect against infection in the first place. But real life can interfere; the effectiveness of this prophylactic approach declines if the medications aren’t taken as prescribed. ...
Physician scientist, interested in obesity-related disease, to join faculty
More than one in three U.S. adults is obese, a condition that puts them at risk for an alarming array of health problems, from diabetes and heart disease to cancer. But while obesity brings devastating consequences for many, some escape. For a select few, obesity causes little more than sore join...
Facial motion activates a dedicated network within the brain, research shows
A face is more than a static collection of features. A shift in gaze, a tightening of the lips, a tilt of the head, these movements convey important clues to someone’s state of mind. Scientists know that two particularly social and visual creatures, humans and rhesus macaque monkeys, have a netwo...
In the News - The Telegraph - McEwen
'Senior moments' could be coming to an end "Professor Bruce McEwen, of The Rockefeller University, New York, said: 'By examining the neurological changes that occurred after Riluzole treatment, we discovered one way in which the brain's ability to reorganise itself, its neuroplasticity, can be ma...
Jeffrey M. Friedman and Leslie B. Vosshall named 2014 AAAS Fellows
Rockefeller University scientists Jeffrey M. Friedman and Leslie B. Vosshall have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as a fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers for scientifically or socially distinguished efforts...
In the News - WSJ - Greengard
The mind and its mysteries   "'We do know from my own work on depression that there seems to be several different parts of the brain involved [in creativity]. Different parts of the brain are all speaking to each other. We’re trying to figure out how they’re speaking to each other.' [Dr. Green...
New research suggests an existing drug, riluzole, may prevent foggy ‘old age’ brain
Forgetfulness, it turns out, is all in the head. Scientists have shown that fading memory and clouding judgment, the type that comes with advancing age, show up as lost and altered connections between neurons in the brain. But new experiments suggest an existing drug, known as riluzole and alread...
‘Radiogenetics’ seeks to remotely control cells and genes
It’s the most basic of ways to find out what something does, whether it’s an unmarked circuit breaker or an unidentified gene — flip its switch and see what happens. New remote-control technology may offer biologists a powerful way to do this with cells and genes. A team at Rockefeller Univers...
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